First book to explore print-media representations of 1970s German terrorism from an explicitly gendered perspective, while also examining media coverage of other violent women.
As the controversy surrounding the release of Uli Edel and Bernd Eichinger’s 2008 feature film
The Baader Meinhof Complex demonstrates, West Germany’s terrorist period, which reached its height in the ‘German autumn’ of 1977, is still a fascinating — and troubling — subject. One of the most provocative aspects, still today, is the high proportion of women involved in terrorism, most notoriously Ulrike Meinhof. That the film concentrates on the trajectory of Meinhof’s life and mobilizes established and hence reassuring paradigms of femininity in its representation of her (as ‘mother’ and ‘hysterical woman’) suggests that the combination of women and violence is still threatening and that there is still mileage to be had from feminizing the discourse. The present study returns to the West German print media of the 1960s and 1970s and raises questions about the continuing preoccupation with this period. Looking at publications from the right-wing
Bild to the liberal
Der Spiegel, it explores how violent women — not only terrorists but also others such as the convicted murderer and media femme fatale Vera Brühne — were represented in text and image. This is the first book to explore print-media representations of German terrorism from an explicitly gendered perspective, and one of very few books in English to address the period in Germanyat all, despite steadily increasing interest in the UK and the US.
Clare Bielby is Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Hull.
As the controversy surrounding the release of Uli Edel and Bernd Eichinger’s 2008 feature film
The Baader Meinhof Complex demonstrates, West Germany’s terrorist period, which reached its height in the ‘German autumn’ of 1977, is still a fascinating — and troubling — subject. One of the most provocative aspects, still today, is the high proportion of women involved in terrorism, most notoriously Ulrike Meinhof. That the film concentrates on the trajectory of Meinhof’s life and mobilizes established and hence reassuring paradigms of femininity in its representation of her (as ‘mother’ and ‘hysterical woman’) suggests that the combination of women and violence is still threatening and that there is still mileage to be had from feminizing the discourse. The present study returns to the West German print media of the 1960s and 1970s and raises questions about the continuing preoccupation with this period. Looking at publications from the right-wing
Bild to the liberal
Der Spiegel, it explores how violent women — not only terrorists but also others such as the convicted murderer and media femme fatale Vera Brühne — were represented in text and image. This is the first book to explore print-media representations of German terrorism from an explicitly gendered perspective, and one of very few books in English to address the period in Germanyat all, despite steadily increasing interest in the UK and the US.
Clare Bielby is Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Hull.
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Table of Content
Introduction: Women, Violence, Representation, and West GermanyThe Violent Woman, Motherhood, and the Nation
Hysteria and the Feminization of the Violent Woman
‘Die Waffen der Frau’ (the Weapons of Women): The Violent Woman as Phallic
Filth: Abjecting the Violent Female Body
Conclusion: Remembering the Violent Woman
About the author
CLARE BIELBY is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Women’s Studies at the University of York, UK.Buy this ebook and get 1 more FREE!
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 236 ● ISBN 9781571138378 ● File size 24.9 MB ● Publisher Boydell & Brewer ● City Rochester ● Country US ● Published 2012 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 6945862 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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